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1 good fruit you can scarcely do better 

 than mix some portion of the clay with 

 the surface loam, which will enable the 

 trees the better to keep thrifty in such 

 close proximity to sandstone rock. We 

 believe the following will be a good 

 selection to add to what you have, to 

 give variety and succession in each of 

 the several classes: — For the walls — 

 Elruge Nectarine ; Tardive d'Orleans 

 Apricot ; Green Gage, Jefferson, Coe's 

 Golden Drop, and Goes late red Plums ; 

 Morello, Belle Magnifique, and early 

 purple Guigne Cherries ; Josephine de 

 Malines Pear. To grow as bushes the 

 following Apples. — Beaiity of Kent, 

 Braddick's Nonpareil, Cellini, Cox's 

 Orange Pippin, Juneating, Golden 

 Harvey, Newtown Pippin, Lord Suffield, 

 Reinette du Canada, Ribston Pippin, 

 Waltham Abbey, Knight's Downton 

 Pippin. Plums. — Early Prolific, Reine 

 Claude Vioiette, Lawrence's Gage, Reine 

 Claude de Bavay, Prince Englebert, De 

 Montford, Mirabelle, Belle de Septem- 

 bre. Cherries. — Royal Duke, Arch- 

 duke, Black Tartarian. The three best 

 strawberries for you are Keen's Seed- 

 ling, British Queen, and La Constante. 

 We must not recommend dealers. Your 

 stations will do admirably. 

 Extermination of Plantains from a 

 Lawn. — H. A. begs to inform A. B. C. 

 that a certain and effectual remedy for 

 the extermination of the plantains from 

 the lawn is to put coarse salt on the 

 crown of the plant, and by no means to 

 cut it. It should be done in the after- 

 noon. Of course whenever a stray one 

 comes up, persevere in the salt, but 

 never allow a spud or knife to touch 

 them. H. A. has a large lawn, and 

 having entirely destroyed them, as well 

 as the daisies, it is now a most beautiful 

 piece of turf. 

 Planting Out a View under Trees. — 

 A. B. S. — The best way to block out 

 the objectionable view will be to plant 

 under the trees box, privet, Taxus cana- 

 densis, red dogwood, and common green 

 holly. In front, if there is anything 

 like an open space, plant aucubas, va- 

 riegated hollies, common juniper, and 

 Chinese privet, which bear partial shade 

 well, but never so well adapted for 

 being completely shaded as those first 

 mentioned. Three years ago a poor 

 nian asked our advice about planting 

 out an obnoxious view by means of some 

 sort of undergrowth, and as the shrubs 

 proper for the purpose were beyond his 

 means, we advised him to plant first a 

 lot of dead tres-sturaps, four to six feet 



high, and then cover them with ivy and 

 Virginian creeper. This autumn we have 

 seen the plantation, and it is a most 

 beautiful affair, and the view through 

 the stems of the trees is completely in- 

 te rcepted. 

 Various. — A. B. S. — Your fern is Nephro- 

 lepis exaltata, unquestionably the finest 

 fern for the centre of a vase or fern- 

 case. — J. Symon. — A vinery will do very 

 well for a few greenhouse ferns ; in fact, 

 they may be grown anywhere if safe 

 from frost in winter and roasting sun in 

 summer. Your specimens are — 1. Com- 

 mon harts-tongue, Scolopendrium vul- 

 gare ; 2. A»plenium adiantum nigrum ; 

 3. Polypodium vulgare ; 4. Blechnum 

 spicant, starved ; 5. Cystopteris fragilis. 

 — Irishman. — It cannot be of any benefit 

 to you for the paper to be published, 

 unless your name and address appears 

 with it, else how are you to obtain the 

 aid you seek ? If you write on the sup- 

 position that we could receive and trans- 

 mit, it is a mistake ; we could not do it, 

 Selaginella apoda would not grow on the 

 outside of your case, but the common Ly- 

 copodium denticulatum might. The beet 

 ferns for you are Asplenium marinum, 

 Scolopendrium vulgare, Adiantum cunea- 

 tum, and assimile, Lomaria antarctica, 

 Doodia caudata, Cystopteris fragilis, 

 Polypodium cambricnm, and Lastrea 

 spinulosa. All these are cheap, and 

 may be obtained of any nurseiyman. — 

 Burford. — Roses may be rooted in 

 water by taking half-ripe shoots in June 

 and July, making them into cuttings, 

 with a joint at the base, and inserting 

 them in phials of water, and wrapping 

 the phials round with flannel, to ex- 

 clude the light, and placing the phials 

 in a window. When the joint at the 

 base of the shoot begins to put out little 

 claw-like roots, the cuttings should be 

 at once potted in sandy peat or leaf- 

 mould, and be placed on a gentle 

 bottom-heaf. It is a very unsatisfactory 

 way of raising roses. — T. P. Crick- 

 howell. — Sigma's hoes are supplied by 

 Mr. Powell, Hurst Green, Sussex. We 

 quite forget who is the maker of the 

 Canterbury hoe ; perhaps Gidney, of 

 East Dereham, Norfolk, may know 

 something about it. — Mrs. A. A. — The 

 blue flower is Lobelia raraosus, the 

 other Leptosiphon densiflorus. There is 

 no "pocket-book" on exotic ferns. — 

 3Irs. D. Rayleigh. — Probably the pa- 

 tent fuel sold by Carman, of Newgate 

 Street, might answer, or charcoal broken 

 the size of walnuts. 



